Tag - climate action

2017 was a dramatic year for climate news, wasn’t it? Trump promised to yank the US out of the Paris Agreement and scrap the Clean Power Plan. Yet this only seemed to make other countries (and US cities, states and companies) more determined...

The other day I saw a tweet that had escaped its platform of birth to become a Facebook meme. I can’t find it, but it said something like: “Can we all please stop acting like ordinary people are to blame for climate change because we won’t take 5...

So last week saw the finale of the 2017 climate summit – aka “COP23” for short. Yet another round of talks in the never-ending talking shop that is the global climate political process. So what? It’s easy for the annual UN...

It’s easy to get struck by existential dread when you’re reading about climate change. Personally I think there hasn’t been enough attention on the psychological effects of this. Although you can find a few fantastic articles on...

There are many reasons why Donald Trump is dangerous. His egotism, his authoritarianism, his disregard for facts, his bigotry towards women, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled people… There’s quite a few contenders. But arguably his most dangerous quality...

What do we want? Evidence based policy! When do we want it? After peer review! My personal high point of the London March for Science must have been when someone started chanting that. So witty. So good. I attended the March for Science in London...

Lately there’s been a lot of talk about political polarisation and ideological bubbles. Brexit in the UK, Trump in America and an apparent withering of the centre ground across Europe while people increasingly go to the radical Right or Left. As...

Hubs of commerce and culture. Seats of geopolitical power. Throughout history they’ve been pulling country folk to seek their fortunes with these massive magical concrete magnets. In pre-industrial times, cities were still the cores of political...